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id: 23528
author: Anonymous
title: Carlo or Kindness Rewarded
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words: 1626
sentence: 71
flesch: 86
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summary:
  The next morning, Ida sat at the door of the cottage, studying her lesson, while her new pet, little Carlo (as she had named the dog) played at her feet. [Illustration: Ida Saving Carlo.]


id: 10976
author: Unknown
title: The Apricot Tree
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 6777
sentence: 282
flesch: 82
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summary:
  Tom Andrews was very teasing, but Ned tried not to be provoked; and when Tom said ill-natured things to him, he checked the angry replies he was tempted to make. Now, Ned, you have allowed that Tom's being turned away is not likely to make him better, but worse; so that I am afraid the true reason why you rejoice at his disgrace is because you bear resentment against him, for having been ill-natured to yourself.


id: 20896
author: Cupples, George, Mrs.
title: Carry's Rose; or, the Magic of Kindness. A Tale for the Young
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 11483
sentence: 432
flesch: 78
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txt: txt/20896.txt
summary:
  Caroline Ashcroft stood by the trellised arbour on the lawn, along with Daisy, her pet lamb, watching for the approach of the carriage which had been sent to the railway-station to meet her papa and her only brother, Herbert. She was so anxious to pull it off, that Caroline was obliged to hold her head very firm, in case she should eat it up before Herbert arrived.


id: 39806
author: Brine, Mary D. (Mary Dow)
title: How "A Dear Little Couple" Went Abroad
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mime: text/plain
words: 11700
sentence: 387
flesch: 77
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summary:
  They finally decided to give a few stares back again, and little bashful Polly ventured to smile, though she didn't have anything in particular to smile about. They saw lots of little children in the street going about with great beautiful bunches of flowers--red, red roses and Italian violets in their dirty little hands, running after carriages, and holding their fragrant wares up to the ladies and gentlemen who were driving about to see the city.


id: 11107
author: Malan, César
title: Theobald, the Iron-Hearted; Or, Love to Enemies
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 11449
sentence: 786
flesch: 87
cache: cache/11107.txt
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summary:
  At last Theobald said, slowly, It is not, then, like Christians, for men to hate and war with each other? Theobald believed himself serving God, and doing a holy work, in killing a Calixtan.


id: 31366
author: Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)
title: A Little Dusky Hero
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 17344
sentence: 1131
flesch: 90
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txt: txt/31366.txt
summary:
  That was all little G. W. had for a guide. That it was one of our boys little G. W. of course knew; but he was _not_ prepared for the sight that presently rose before him.


id: 20080
author: Dyer, Gertrude P.
title: Little Pollie Or a Bunch of Violets
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 18439
sentence: 807
flesch: 82
cache: cache/20080.txt
txt: txt/20080.txt
summary:
  Poor little Pollie lies sick and ill at home, so pale and thin one would scarcely recognise in that wan little face the Pollie of last spring-time! Poor child, poor little child, murmured the lady compassionately.


id: 14018
author: Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe
title: Marie
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 21147
sentence: 992
flesch: 87
cache: cache/14018.txt
txt: txt/14018.txt
summary:
  There was a sense of awakening everywhere; whispers seemed to come and go in the tops of the pine-trees, telling of coming things, of songs that would be sung in their branches, as they had been sung before; of blossoms that would spring at their feet, brightening the world with gold and white and crimson. So Abby went away to the West, to tend her sister, and Jacques and Marie De Arthenay began their life together.


id: 21310
author: Fenn, George Manville
title: Featherland: How the Birds lived at Greenlawn
extension: .txt
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words: 21941
sentence: 619
flesch: 74
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summary:
  Nests had been built; eggs had been laid; little callow birds had been hatched; and the little mouths wanted so much feeding that there was not even time to sing. Whew, whoo, whistlerustle, away they went, and settled in a cloud on the top of the old ivied house, and round about the owl's nest--birds of all colours, sorts, and sizes; long tails and short tails; long bills and short bills; worm-workers, grub-grinders, bud-biters, snail-crushers, seed-snappers, berry-bringers, fruit-finders, all kinds of birds--to fetch Judge Owl to sit at the court, to try the foreign thief, who had made such a commotion, trouble, bother, worry, and disturbance; and kicked up such a dust, such a shindy, such a hobble, as had never before been known in Featherland. Hallo! here, Shoutnight; hallo! wake up; anybody at home? said the magpie, holding his head very much on one side, and peeping with one eye at a time into the snug place where the fuzzy old gentleman used to bring his mice home.


id: 31265
author: Otis, James
title: Aunt Hannah and Seth
extension: .txt
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words: 22715
sentence: 844
flesch: 78
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summary:
  It's the only home I ever knew, an' my heart would be wellnigh broken if I lost it! Before she had ceased speaking Seth was flinging rug after rug on the burning oil, for Aunt Hannah, like many another woman living in the country, had an ample supply of such floor coverings. It was not until Aunt Hannah had concluded that Seth appeared to understand he was the boy referred to, and then he asked excitedly: Do you suppose the Seth Barrows told about there can be me? Of course, my dear.


id: 49724
author: Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe
title: Snow-White; or, The House in the Wood
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 23752
sentence: 1627
flesch: 96
cache: cache/49724.txt
txt: txt/49724.txt
summary:
  Dwarfs didn't ought to eat them, any more than children. When you leave this kinds of child alone, it runs away, that's what it does; and Miss Tylers isn't any kind of persons to leave this kinds of child wiz, anyhow, and so I told them at first.


id: 21471
author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
title: Mountain Moggy: The Stoning of the Witch
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 24223
sentence: 1129
flesch: 83
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summary:
  One boy, more daring than the rest, and superior in appearance to most of them, lingered behind, and finding a stone remaining in his pocket of those with which he had, like his companions, provided himself to attack the old woman, he turned round once more, and flung it in the direction of the hut, saying, as he did so, That's my parting gift, old Moggy. The Doctor's wife, ever ready with help and sympathy, in spite of the numerous maternal cares to which she had to attend, immediately exclaimed, Poor old creature!


id: 5970
author: Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan
title: Lovey Mary
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 22669
sentence: 1515
flesch: 91
cache: cache/5970.txt
txt: txt/5970.txt
summary:
  When Lovey Mary stumbled over the Hazy threshold with the sleeping Tommy and the duck in her arms, Miss Hazy fluttered about in dismay. Lovey Mary crushed the letter in her hand; she would not give it to Miss Hazy.


id: 63261
author: Anonymous
title: Be Kind to One Another
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 798
sentence: 37
flesch: 82
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txt: txt/63261.txt
summary:
  Ellie's younger sister, May, was also a great friend of Lily's, and joined with them in all their plays; but as she was in a different class at school, Ellie and Lily were rather more constantly together. Bitter was her disappointment, and still worse did she feel, when, a few moments after, Ellie and Lily came running in--their cheeks as red as roses--to see if May was ready for school.


id: 36759
author: Guild, C. S. (Caroline Snowden)
title: Daisy; or, The Fairy Spectacles
extension: .txt
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words: 26088
sentence: 951
flesch: 82
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summary:
  The truth was, Maud had a feeling that, if poor little Daisy had an angel to watch over her, she, who was so much more beautiful, could not be left to perish. When any of these things happened, of course poor Daisy had to be scolded, as if it were her fault.


id: 63295
author: Sherwood, Mary Martha
title: The Wishing Cap
extension: .txt
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words: 2143
sentence: 112
flesch: 89
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summary:
  [Illustration] Every day little Charles read a few chapters in a Bible which his papa had given him, and he tried to remember the good things which had been taught him: so God blessed little Charles, and helped him to be good. Why will you not play with us? Perhaps you may not be pleased, if I tell you, Ma'am; and I do not wish to make you angry, answered little Charles.


id: 7824
author: Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe
title: Melody : The Story of a Child
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 26422
sentence: 1476
flesch: 90
cache: cache/7824.txt
txt: txt/7824.txt
summary:
  For a moment the two strong ones stood irresolute, feeling themselves like little children in the grasp of a fate too big for them to grapple. You shall hear all my stories, he said; everything you shall hear, little Melody; but here we are at the house now, and I must make my manners to the ladies.


id: 48552
author: Taggart, Marion Ames
title: The Blissylvania Post-Office
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 28283
sentence: 1564
flesch: 87
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txt: txt/48552.txt
summary:
  Some sure instinct always led little Margery to divine the right and kindest thing to do. Let's kneel right down and thank God, pious little Margery suggested at last, and as there was no one there to see, the big man and the little maiden knelt down on the grass under the pines with their Gothic arches, and said a most sincere prayer of thanksgiving.


id: 21134
author: Wilson, Theodore P.
title: Working in the Shade Lowly Sowing brings Glorious Reaping
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words: 31420
sentence: 1088
flesch: 71
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summary:
  Colonel Dawson turned to the lady and young man by his side and introduced them as, My sister Miss Dawson; my nephew Mr Horace Jackson. My name, old friend, is Horace Jackson.


id: 12315
author: Sherwood, Mary Martha
title: Shanty the Blacksmith; a Tale of Other Times
extension: .txt
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words: 32263
sentence: 806
flesch: 62
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summary:
  His aunt, Mrs. Margaret Dymock, was his housekeeper, and so careful had she always been, for she had kept house for her brother, the late laird, that the neighbours said she had half-starved herself, in order to keep up some little show of old hospitality. Nothing, however, which has been said of Mrs. Margaret Dymock goes against that which might be said with truth, that there was a fund of kindness in the heart of the venerable spinster, though it was sometimes choked up and counteracted by her desire to make a greater appearance than the family means would allow.


id: 5676
author: MacDonald, George
title: A Double Story
extension: .txt
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words: 34622
sentence: 1606
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Miserable man and woman! To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it.


id: 43134
author: Molesworth, Mrs.
title: That Girl in Black; and, Bronzie
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 23553
sentence: 1546
flesch: 87
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summary:
  You have seen Mrs Englewood? Maisie, my dear, for a step or two had brought them to the indicated spot, I want to introduce my old friend, Mr Despard Norreys, to you.


id: 31521
author: Anonymous
title: Little Frida: A Tale of the Black Forest
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 40921
sentence: 1987
flesch: 85
cache: cache/31521.txt
txt: txt/31521.txt
summary:
  Do you not remember the first time when Pastor Langen brought you here a shy, trembling little child, and asked me to see you from time to time? She understood, and answered in her sweet babyish accents, 'Fader come back soon, he told little Frida.


id: 54961
author: Bowen, C. E. (Charlotte Elizabeth)
title: How a Farthing Made a Fortune; or "Honesty is the best policy"
extension: .txt
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words: 23163
sentence: 1739
flesch: 88
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summary:
  Such was the home in which little Dick was reared. And then he talked of things very new to little Dick.


id: 42961
author: Child, Frank Samuel
title: The House With Sixty Closets: A Christmas Story for Young Folks and Old Children
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words: 31858
sentence: 2172
flesch: 92
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summary:
  But it occurred to Mr. Judge at this point that his wife was not prepared for winter. She was simply thoughtless like many other children.


id: 45666
author: Malet, Lucas
title: Little Peter: A Christmas Morality for Children of any Age
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words: 28701
sentence: 1470
flesch: 86
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summary:
  Now, to tell the truth, poor little Peter was becoming rather confused and nervous, with all this wild, incomprehensible talk of the charcoal-burner's. Poor little Peter had lain just like that, quite still and quiet, in bed ever since his father and the charcoal-burner had placed him there when they had got home from that terrible walk in the snow, about four o'clock in the morning.


id: 13803
author: Alger, Horatio, Jr.
title: Making His Way; Or, Frank Courtney's Struggle Upward
extension: .txt
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words: 44954
sentence: 3228
flesch: 87
cache: cache/13803.txt
txt: txt/13803.txt
summary:
  Don't be too sure of that, Dick, said Frank Frank, hopefully. She was too good to suspect the badness of others, Mr. Frank.


id: 15538
author: Gilbert, Rosa M. (Rosa Mulholland)
title: Hetty Gray Nobody's Bairn
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 53442
sentence: 2829
flesch: 85
cache: cache/15538.txt
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summary:
  Yes, little Hetty is here! said Amy with a gleeful laugh; but then, William, Lady Harriet is gone. Mrs. Rushton's eyes flashed, and she did her brother the injustice of thinking that he feared her adoption of little Hetty would in some way interfere with the worldly interests of his own children.


id: 13912
author: Ouida
title: Bébée; Or, Two Little Wooden Shoes
extension: .txt
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words: 55433
sentence: 2477
flesch: 86
cache: cache/13912.txt
txt: txt/13912.txt
summary:
  She would marry, no doubt, some time, and rear her children honestly and well; and sit in the market stall every day, and spin and sew, and dig and wash, and sweep, and brave bad weather, and be content with poor food to the end of her harmless and laborious days--poor little Bébée! Poor little Bébée!


id: 32520
author: Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe
title: Hildegarde's Harvest
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 52953
sentence: 3796
flesch: 91
cache: cache/32520.txt
txt: txt/32520.txt
summary:
  Now, in the name of all that is elfish, Hildegarde Grahame, what are you doing here? Hildegarde turned round, her eyes full of happy laughter, and took her friend's arm. This only shows, dear Hildegarde, the dreadful misfortune of being unmethodical.


id: 43122
author: Molesworth, Mrs.
title: Silverthorns
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 58239
sentence: 3600
flesch: 89
cache: cache/43122.txt
txt: txt/43122.txt
summary:
  The girl at Silverthorns--Miss Meredon, and old Lady Mildred. But he had two sons: one became the squire, and did very well for himself, by marrying Lady Mildred Meredon, for she is a clever and capable woman, and he would never have left things in as good order as he did but for her.


id: 8413
author: Thurston, I. T. (Ida Treadwell)
title: The Bishop's Shadow
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 70347
sentence: 3752
flesch: 89
cache: cache/8413.txt
txt: txt/8413.txt
summary:
  There were not many women in the number gathered there, and the few who were there were of the lowest sort, but men and boys--largely tramps, roughs and street boys--were there in countless numbers, mingled with not a few of the better class. She was thinking how hard she tried to bring up her children to be good boys and girls, and yet they were not always good.


id: 48228
author: Carey, Rosa Nouchette
title: Averil
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 68834
sentence: 4832
flesch: 88
cache: cache/48228.txt
txt: txt/48228.txt
summary:
  No one who had seen Averil Willmot for the first time would have guessed her age; in reality she was seven-and-twenty, but her diminutive stature, which scarcely equaled that of a well-grown child of twelve, often made people think her much younger; and her face, in spite of the cast of melancholy that was always perceptible, was singularly youthful. One afternoon, about a fortnight after Averil Willmot had paid her visit to Lincoln's Inn, Mr. Harland stood on the deck of the small steamer in the gay port of Dinan, looking with amused eyes on the motley group collected on the quay.


id: 5632
author: Sidney, Margaret
title: Five Little Peppers Midway
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 72590
sentence: 4576
flesch: 89
cache: cache/5632.txt
txt: txt/5632.txt
summary:
  She doesn't need urging, said old Mr. King quite distinctly, and not moving a muscle. Here, Jasper. Bless my soul, so you must! cried old Mr. King; to think we didn't ask you first.


id: 21461
author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
title: Fred Markham in Russia; Or, The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 83520
sentence: 3804
flesch: 78
cache: cache/21461.txt
txt: txt/21461.txt
summary:
  But he was great according to the received maxims of the world, by which maxims other men with as little desert have received the same title. There were about fifty of them, old men and youths, and even women, some of them young, poor creatures, looking miserable, heart-broken, and forlorn.


id: 59853
author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester
title: A Young Hero; Or, Fighting to Win
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 68534
sentence: 2667
flesch: 77
cache: cache/59853.txt
txt: txt/59853.txt
summary:
  It may well be asked what young Fred Sheldon expected to do with such a useless musket, should emergency arise demanding a weapon. As he did so he placed his hand on the top rail of the fence and with one bound leaped over, dropping upon his feet within a few steps of poor Fred Sheldon, who, with every reason for believing he had been seen, sprang to his feet and ran for dear life.


id: 42623
author: Tomlinson, Everett T. (Everett Titsworth)
title: Camping on the St. Lawrence; Or, On the Trail of the Early Discoverers
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 81101
sentence: 4414
flesch: 86
cache: cache/42623.txt
txt: txt/42623.txt
summary:
  It is a thorough-going boy's book of the right sort,--full of life, bubbling over with high spirits and noble ambition; a most intelligent interpretation of boy life and character. Well, the way that same Ethan looks at us, and sniffs at our rods, and treats us as if we were boys, just scares me; it does, for a fact.


id: 21698
author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
title: Rivers of Ice
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 96505
sentence: 3979
flesch: 75
cache: cache/21698.txt
txt: txt/21698.txt
summary:
  Captain Wopper grasped the other end, and, between them, with much puffing, pushing, and squeezing, they thrust the box through the trap to the upper regions, whither the Captain followed it by means of the same gymnastic feat that he performed on his first ascent. It's a bad look-out, murmured Captain Wopper, when he observed that Dr Lawrence turned deliberately to converse with the Professor, leaving Lewis to assist Emma to alight, even although he, the Captain, had, by means of laboured contrivance and vast sagacity, brought the Doctor and the mule into close juxtaposition at the right time.


id: 10935
author: Lagerlöf, Selma
title: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 157055
sentence: 8762
flesch: 90
cache: cache/10935.txt
txt: txt/10935.txt
summary:
  He was separated from everything now; he could no longer play with other boys, he could not take charge of the farm after his parents were gone; and certainly no girl would think of marrying _him_. But it hadn't occurred to him before, that he was no longer the sort of boy the hens need fear.


id: 31869
author: Cummins, Maria S. (Maria Susanna)
title: The Lamplighter
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
words: 152018
sentence: 7082
flesch: 78
cache: cache/31869.txt
txt: txt/31869.txt
summary:
  Next day Mrs. Prime, the cook, came to Emily's room, and produced the little basket, made of a nut, saying, I wonder now, Miss Emily, where Miss Gertrude is; for I've found her little basket in the coal-hole, and I guess she'll be right glad on't--'tan't hurt a mite. She considered herself favoured in obtaining the services of Jane, who consented to come and help Miss Gertrude.


